Which source and date frame the 2019 English-specialist curriculum’s approach to art and debate?
The Bulletin Officiel, July 25th, 2019.
How can anti-establishment meaning arise without an artist’s deliberate commitment?
Audiences may read a work that way in its social context.
Where do Tom Joad and his family travel after leaving their Oklahoma farm?
They travel to California in search of a better life.
Which three ways can The Grapes of Wrath be read?
As an epic journey, realistic fiction, and social commentary.
What does anti-war literature expose about war?
It debunks popular myths about war.
What can anti-war literature portray about a young soldier?
The personal aftermath that leaves him shattered.
Which works does the course identify for studying anti-war literature?
The Red Badge of Courage, Catch-22, Slaughterhouse-Five, and “On the Rainy River.”
What makes Yossarian’s exemption from combat impossible in Catch-22?
Wanting to avoid battle is treated as proof of sanity.
How many people were killed in the Allied bombing of Dresden?
35,000 people.
What happens to Henry Fleming after he deserts in The Red Badge of Courage?
He returns to his regiment and later distinguishes himself as a hero in battle.
How does Henry Fleming’s understanding of courage change?
It shifts from earning peers’ praise to personal self-concern independent of reputation.
Which Bob Dylan songs does the course identify as anti-war hymns?
“Blowin’ in the Wind” and “The Times They Are a-Changin’.”
How is the caste system structured, and how is membership inherited?
It is a ranked, strict, codified hierarchy with hereditary membership and endogamy.
Which four groups make up the major castes?
Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and Shudras.
Where were Dalits placed in relation to the caste system?
Outside and below it.
What issues can provoke controversies about art?
Aesthetic disputes, moral or political judgments, censorship, propriety, political correctness, and access.
What does *The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living* depict?
A dead shark preserved in formaldehyde.
How many diamonds decorate *For the Love of God*?
8,601 diamonds.
How many cross-sections make up the cow in *Some Comfort Gained from the Acceptance of the Inherent Lies in Everything*?
Twelve cross-sections.
Which artistic disciplines featured in Emin’s practice?
Painting, sculpture, sewing, drawing, performance, and film.
What did Emin present *In My Bed* as?
Testimony to her life after depression.
Where did Harold Pinter grow up?
London’s East End.
When was *The Birthday Party* first produced in London?
1958.
What do Goldberg and McCann do to Stanley in *The Birthday Party*?
They interrogate him and accuse him of betrayal and murder.
What distinction did the Battle of Gettysburg hold among battles fought in the United States?
It was the largest battle ever fought in the United States.
On what date did Lee surrender at Appomattox?
April 9, 1865.
At what event did Abraham Lincoln deliver the Gettysburg Address in November 1863?
The dedication ceremony for the National Cemetery of Gettysburg.
What did the Gettysburg Address later express about democratic values?
Faith in democratic values.
When and where did John Fitzgerald Kennedy deliver “We Choose to Go to the Moon”?
At Rice University in Houston on September 12, 1962.
What did Kennedy promise about an American landing on the Moon?
An American would land on the Moon before the end of the 1960s.
When did Churchill become Prime Minister, and when did he give his first speech in that role?
He became Prime Minister on May 10, 1940, and spoke in the House of Commons on May 13, 1940.
Where and when did Romanticism originate, and when did it become widespread?
It originated in Germany with Goethe and Schiller’s poems at the end of the 18th century and became widespread in the first half of the 19th century.
What subjects and experiences do Romantic works celebrate and associate with isolation and melancholy?
They focus on the writer’s inner life and celebrate nature, the common person, and emotion, associating individual experience and spiritual elevation with isolation and melancholy.
What did British Romanticism react against in the Industrial Revolution, Enlightenment, and neoclassicism?
It reacted against industrial encroachment on Nature, the Enlightenment’s preference for reason over emotion, and neoclassicism’s tempered, ordered depictions of Nature.
Which work and authors are credited with beginning English Romantic literature, and when was it first published?
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s *The Lyrical Ballads*, first published in 1798.
Under what pseudonym was Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights published, and in what year?
It was published as “Ellis Bell” in 1847.
Where is Wuthering Heights set, and what drives its multigenerational story?
It is set at an isolated farmhouse in early nineteenth-century England, where love and revenge shape multiple generations.
Who recounts his visit to the farmhouse in Wuthering Heights?
Lockwood recounts his visit.
What is the central subject of Wuthering Heights?
Heathcliff and Catherine’s doomed love and Heathcliff’s revenge after her death.
Under what pen name was Jane Eyre first published?
“Currer Bell.”
What qualities define Jane Eyre’s heroine?
She is unconventional, independent, and self-reliant.
What does Jane Eyre combine with Gothic elements?
Moral realism, expressed through Jane’s choice between sexual need and ethical duty.
Why does Jane flee Rochester in Jane Eyre?
She refuses to live with him outside marriage after learning he is already married to Bertha.
Which poem was published shortly after Edgar Allan Poe’s death in 1849?
“Annabel Lee,” Poe’s last poem.
What does Existentialism say determines human life’s essence?
Personal choices, individual existence, and actions.
Which narrative device was Virginia Woolf among the first to use?
Stream of consciousness.
What does stream of consciousness aim to represent?
The immediate, spontaneous flow of impressions a character experiences or perceives.
In which year was Emily Dickinson born?
1830.
Which 1947 play follows Blanche Dubois’s move to New Orleans?
Tennessee Williams’s *A Streetcar Named Desire*.
Who argued that people imagine an ending because the future is unknowable?
Frank Kermode, in *The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction* (1967).
What does James Berger argue about the Apocalypse in *After the End* (1999)?
Its anticipated end never comes without leaving something behind.
Which source and date frame the course’s discussion of artistic self-representation?
The Bulletin Officiel, July 25th, 2019.
How does Hockney create naturalistic self-portraits?
He records himself looking in a mirror and painting what he sees.
How did Wilde construct his social identity?
Through witty conversation and flamboyant dandy clothing and behavior.
What does Aestheticism value above politics and social questions?
Beauty.
What happens to Dorian Gray as he lives on while his portrait ages?
The portrait grows uglier with each sin.
How did Bowie’s alter egos, especially Ziggy Stardust, shape his artistic identity?
They fed his music and supported reinvention through avatars, fashion, and transvestism.
What two purposes can self-portraits serve in the course’s distinction?
Securing posterity or revealing and investigating identity.
What does Franklin’s fourth part of Autobiography focus on?
Mainly political life.
What did the American Abolitionist Movement seek to end immediately?
Slavery in the United States.
What kind of accounts make up a slave narrative?
Written autobiographies by former slaves.
Who writes an autobiography about someone’s life?
The person whose life it recounts.
Where did Frederick Douglass escape from enslavement?
Maryland.
Which work and year are associated with Frederick Douglass’s best-known autobiography?
Frederick Douglass, A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, 1845.
Which work and year are associated with Sherman Alexie’s novel about Arnold Spirit Jr.?
Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, 2007.
What does a metaphor do?
It makes an implicit comparison between two things.
What words commonly signal a simile?
Words such as “like” or “as.”
What experiences can contribute to an individual's initiation and growth?
Painful experiences, including loss, cruelty, violence, and failed learning.
Which genres does Fielding's Tom Jones combine?
The Bildungsroman and picaresque genres.
What does a Bildungsroman focus on?
The protagonist's psychological, intellectual, and moral growth.
Which novel by Thomas Hughes recounts school life and influenced the British school-novel genre?
Tom Brown's School Days (1857).
Which exam credentials distinguish the course’s account of UK schooling?
GCSE and A-level end-of-year exams.
Which film portrays John Keating encouraging students to appreciate art and pursue their passions?
Peter Weir’s Dead Poets Society (1989).
What does Keating urge students to do with the present through “carpe diem”?
Make the most of the present and make their lives extraordinary.
What does the course say school teaches students about learning through writing and discussion?
How to study and think.
What clauses does a complex sentence contain?
One independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
What makes an independent clause complete?
It expresses a complete thought and can stand alone.
Why can’t a dependent clause stand alone?
It does not express a complete thought.
What abilities does the course develop alongside cultural, literary, and civilisational knowledge?
Critical thinking, tolerance of diverse viewpoints, and distinguishing facts, beliefs, and opinions.
How can art give ideas emotional impact?
By embodying ideas in characters, situations, images, or sounds that arouse emotion.
What kinds of causes may artists resist through their work?
Discrimination, injustice, colonialism, war, or progress.
Which works illustrate aesthetic choices contributing to artistic involvement?
Laurence Sterne’s experimental writing in Tristam Shandy and street art.
What forms of exclusion and mistreatment did Dalits face?
Poverty, limited education, sullied work, contempt, violence, and discrimination.
Why does society condemn Ammu and Velutha’s love affair?
Their high-caste and Dalit backgrounds violate caste boundaries.
Which authors’ works does the course cite as taboo-breaking or anti-apartheid criticism?
D. H. Lawrence, Nadine Gordimer, and André Brink.
Which works does the course cite in discussing censorship?
Brave New World, The Catcher in the Rye, and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.
On what date did Abraham Lincoln take office as the 16th U.S. president?
March 4, 1861.
How does Romanticism use emotion in constructing artistic works and identity?
Emotion serves as material for constructing a work, personality, and identity.
Which three works illustrate Romantic emotional expression and their associated experiences?
Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” evokes communion with Nature, Poe’s “Annabel Lee” mourning, and Brontë’s *Wuthering Heights* passionate love leading to madness.
Which artists treat emotion with greater restraint than artists depicting intense, violent emotions?
Mary Cassatt, Edward Hopper, and Grant Wood.
Which poets belong to the first and second generations of British Romanticism?
First generation: William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge; second generation: George Byron, Percy Shelley, and John Keats.
Which works and materials illustrate painful initiation through loss, cruelty, or violence?
Inside Out, Lord of the Flies, Mark Twain's novels, London Foundling Museum collections, Blitz evacuation accounts, and Lewis Hine's child-labor photographs.
What must the protagonist overcome to grow up in Frank Capra's Wonderful Life?
A failure in learning.
What kind of writing is Henry Fielding known for?
Humorous, satirical, and comic writing.
Where do the characters reunite to resolve the plot of Tom Jones?
London.
What techniques does Tom Jones use to depict human nature and reflect on novel-writing?
Realistic descriptions, reader addresses, rhetorical effects, and irony.
Answer 71 questions on Representing the Self and Nuclear Catastrophe.
1. What forces Tom Joad and his family to leave their Oklahoma farm in The Grapes of Wrath?
2. Which combination best describes how The Grapes of Wrath can be understood as a work of fiction?
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